The Speech Acts Of Contect Creator In Cooking Tutorials On Social Media: Pragmatic Studies

Abstract

A speech act is an utterance of a sentence to state the speaker's intention to be known by the listener. The speech which delivered by the speaker certainly has purposes and objectives that affect the understanding and response of the interlocutor. Based on this, this study aims to describe the meaning and types of speech acts used by a content creator in cooking tutorials which uploaded on his social media. The method used in this research is descriptive qualitative. The data sources used are several videos which uploaded to social media such as TikTok in July to September 2021. The technique which used in the data collection is  listening and recording technique by transcribing the audio on the video in written form. Then, identifying and classifying the speech forms used by the speakers and analyzing the way of delivering the speech acts. Based on the results of the study, it was found that all forms of speech acts such as representative or assertive, expressive, directive, commissive and declarative are contained in the videos uploaded on the social media. However, not all of the functions of these speech acts are contained in these videos.